Also known as Techeva Creek, MGS Locality 11

Where: Yazoo County, Mississippi (32.9° N, 90.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 36.9° N, 72.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• late middle Eocene

Environment/lithology: coastal; glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. L. Fierstine and J. E. Starnes. 2005. Xiphiorhynchus cf. X. eocaenicus (Woodward, 1901), (Scombroidei: Xiphiidae: Xiphiorhynchinae) from the middle Eocene of Mississippi, the first transatlantic distribution of a species of Xiphiorhynchus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(2):280-287 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61249: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.06.2006

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